BoardSource recently launched its survey in connection with the updated Leading with Intent: BoardSource Index of Nonprofit Board Practices for 2023. Who serves on today’s nonprofit boards? What matters most when it comes to the board’s roles and responsibilities? What impact are they having on organizational performance? How do boards conduct their work? How well […]
Author: Gene Takagi
Nonprofit Tweets of the Week – 6/16/23
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets: Equity and Justice: ICWA STANDS! Supreme Court Affirms Indian Child Welfare Act (Kaili Berg, Elyse Wild, Brian Edwards, Native News Online) Disability and aging advocates celebrate […]
Nonprofits: 10 Lessons from “Ted Lasso” and “Succession”
Last week, we saw the series finales of two popular television shows that are now part of the zeitgeist: Ted Lasso and Succession. While we can enjoy both of these series as pure entertainment, I found it interesting to reflect back on them for what they may say about management and governance. Seen in the […]
Nonprofit Tweets of the Week – 6/9/23
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets: Equity and Justice: Can Reparations Become A Reality? This Conference Is Bringing Leaders Together To Make It Happen (Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence) Poverty Persists Because of […]
Two Vehicles, One Home: Fiscal Sponsorship and Donor Advised Funds
On June 1, Social Impact Commons hosted a great practitioner conversation on the intersectionality between fiscal sponsorship and donor advised funds (“DAFs”). The following is a description of the event: We increasingly see fiscal sponsors accidentally or intentionally developing Donor Advised Fund (DAF) programs and, likewise, organizations running DAFs finding themselves acting as fiscal sponsors. […]
Nonprofit Tweets of the Week – 6/2/23
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets: Equity and Justice: Pride (film) Reparations Are a Financial Quandary. For Democrats, They’re a Political One, Too. (Trip Gabriel, Maya King, Kurtis Lee and Shawn Hubler, […]
Enterprise Risk Management for Nonprofits: An Introduction
Enterprise risk management (ERM) is a strategic approach to managing risk holistically across the organization and its ecosystem. Under ERM, risks are not merely identified and addressed on a program or business segment level, they are surfaced so they can be assessed, analyzed, and managed with consideration of the entire organization, including its mission, its […]
Nonprofit Tweets of the Week – 5/26/23
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets: Equity and Justice: Study reveals staggering toll of being Black in America: 1.6 million excess deaths over 22 years (Liz Szabo, NBC News) Diversity, Equity and […]
California: Nonprofit Directors’ Rights of Inspection
As a board member (director) of a California nonprofit public benefit corporation, you have certain rights of inspection that allow you to access and review the corporation’s books, records, documents, and physical properties. Section 6334 of the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law and Section 8334 of the Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation each provide: Every director […]
Nonprofit Tweets of the Week – 5/19/23
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets: Equity and Justice: STAATUS Index 2023 Attitudes towards Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (The Asian American Foundation) The Brutal Past and Uncertain Future of Native Adoptions […]